This type of punishment has been around for thousands of years in Chinese schools since Confucius age. Unfortuantely it was abandoned after communists took over Mainland China. They still do it in Taiwan. I fully support this practice.

Posted Apr-7-2012 By

croissantula

@croissantula Actually it does. Parents that run strict discipline including physical punishment just produce better kids. Creates more motivation quite a few mid 6 figure guys I grew up with had pretty strict folks. Also you're an idiot if you think this is beating. When I was little my parents took out the beating stick - I see nothing wrong with it.

Posted Apr-5-2012 By

copilot1111111

Posted Apr-6-2012 By

Jacob749

My parents were first to sue the schools for hitting ( Whipping ) children. ( Yea first in the USA to sue ) I got whipped by a Walled lake teacher in 1959 and parents sued. The teacher was convicted and did one year in jail. We got a total of 25,000 dollars. ( Lots of money back then ) From that point on no more whippings.

Posted Apr-5-2012 By

durrock

@durrock Hello? Self worth? That is a load of bullshit. Do you think anyone gives a shit about self worth when the kid leaves the school system and enters into the job market? Self worth is the biggest load of shit to EVER come out of our schools...It is a big lie that comes crashing down on students when they arent students, but are now employees. Parents need to teach children self worth by giving them tasks, making them toe the line, teaching them right from wrong and respect for themselvMore..es and others. That isnt a schools job.Less..

Posted Apr-5-2012 By

splicer

@splicer People beaten to submission by authoratarian actions tend to be withdrawn, shy, and less likely to go anywhere. On the other hand overly permissive upbringing lead to cocky bastards and bullies. You need to aim for the middle. You are right it is not the schools job and my point is that PUBLIC humiliation can do no good.

Posted Apr-5-2012 By

durrock

@durrock I agree...aim for the middle...like the back of the middle, commonly called the ass! As far as "public" humiliation, children used to be spanked in front of the entire class for hundreds of years and look what those kids grew up to do. Now look at what todays kids are doing and how our society is going down the drain. Dr Spock was a fucking idiot.

Posted Apr-5-2012 By

PocoBueno

@PocoBueno Wasn't that long ago there was caning in schools, plus use of the ruler was pretty common. Kids are now so protected from harsh reality, that they make comments like "first kid would take that ruler off her and jam it up her ass".

Posted Apr-5-2012 By

neosporin

@jimbo111 yeah look i'm not gonna get into ethics and effectiveness with you; hitting young people with sticks doesn't work, if you're proposing a bat to the head, well maybe we got a working scenario.

Posted Apr-5-2012 By

PocoBueno

@PocoBueno Doesn't work, hmmm so until the last 20 years or so, society & humanity didn't work?

Younger Western people today are so much more respectful of others & themselves, never lashing out in violent ways, demonstrating self control & discipline, & show a clear superiority in perseverance & willingness to work hard to achieve goals than previous generations.

Posted Apr-6-2012 By

PocoBueno

This is ironically exactly why the western countries are more innovative.

The fact is, beating your kids is good for the parents, but bad for the kids. You can be harsh all you want and get your kid to do all his homework, all his chores, and get good grades and you'll think youve done a great job because he's so obediant, but real intelligence means innovation, and innovation means being able to think outside the box, which means having a rebellious nature, which develops in your childhood wheMore..n most asians are having patterns engrained in their heads, and that's why the chinese copy everything American they can.

Posted Apr-6-2012 By

86mang75

@86mang75 That's the whole thing about the far east culture that you are missing. I'd definitely agree with your statement, but in those cultures, you don't innovate, you just simply follow. The up side of it as you mentioned, is good grades and shit ton of discipline(which is almost completely missing in many western cultures-at least in modern era).

Posted Apr-6-2012 By

jitterball

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@Gothiq Are we talking about the kid or the parent being the problem?

The kid made a minor discretion, then crazy ass daddy loses his cool like a mothafucka. I just can't respect people like that, y'know, who really act the fuckery, even if it was coming from a well intended place, that's fuckery right there.

Posted Apr-7-2012 By

86mang75

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Kind of makes sense. This is another reason why China is passing the U.S. in education. Their kids are learning and getting punished if they do not..
Since they stopped paddling in our schools our children have no consequences when they are not doing well.

I do not see a smack on the hand with a ruler as being too much like abuse..

Posted Apr-6-2012 By

skydiver22

@skydiver22 There is an advantage to the rich people, when the rest of the population they are a part of is stupid and uneducated. I think this is the reason rules like not hitting a child ever not even slightly enter moral rules through media etc. On TV they would make a tragedy out of some mother slapping a child for misbehavior.

Your opinion is the right one.

I think it is right hitting children but not actually hurting them. Don't knock them out lol.

My parents gave me money for good gMore..rades (only for As and Bs), but also did hit me, not often though, couple of times, when I did not good.Less..

Posted Apr-6-2012 By

GXst

@GXst My parents were strict but fair. I do know that being disrespectful to an adult was a guaranteed slap on the face from my mother or father..
And when the report card came it had better look good or a possible spanking was coming. If it was good they gave us some money as a reward...